If you're a star, you don't have to play for LA or NY or Chicago. LeBron was plenty marketable for years in Cleveland. Harper is going to be filthy rich and is already as marketable as he could ever hope to be. It will be about lfiestyle and where he wants to live combined with the right baseball fit.

If you're a star, you don't have to play for LA or NY or Chicago. LeBron was plenty marketable for years in Cleveland. Harper is going to be filthy rich and is already as marketable as he could ever hope to be. It will be about lfiestyle and where he wants to live combined with the right baseball fit.

LeBron was in the finals every year- Harper has never been to the NLCS

Why do you think it does- is the potomac comparable to the Pacific, are you a fan of humidity?

One of my best friends lives in LA and repeatedly has tried to get me to move out there. My Response has always been "too much traffic, too many douchbags," I can't credibly cite that as a response since I've moved here.

If you have unlimited funds, LA is superior to DC. Weather, Ocean Proximity, Food, Entertainment Options, etc, etc. Not everyone is going to prefer LA and it doesn't mean I don't like living here, but If I won the lottery, A house in Santa Monica, or Malibu would definitely be high on the wish list. There is nowhere like that in this area.

I'm not going to compare cities because that's very subjective (there's a whole other thread for that and I have no idea what's important to him) but here he can be a legend, which I assume is important to him but who knows.

LeBron was in the finals every year- Harper has never been to the NLCS

Harper is a bigger star than anyone on the Red Sox or Dodgers or Astros or Yankees. He has maxed out his star potential as a baseball player. It doesn't matter where he plays. He is in a low ceiling sport, popularity-wise.

If you're a star, you don't have to play for LA or NY or Chicago. LeBron was plenty marketable for years in Cleveland. Harper is going to be filthy rich and is already as marketable as he could ever hope to be. It will be about lfiestyle and where he wants to live combined with the right baseball fit.

One of my best friends lives in LA and repeatedly has tried to get me to move out there. My Response has always been "too much traffic, too many douchbags," I can't credibly cite that as a response since I've moved here.

If you have unlimited funds, LA is superior to DC. Weather, Ocean Proximity, Food, Entertainment Options, etc, etc. Not everyone is going to prefer LA and it doesn't mean I don't like living here, but If I won the lottery, A house in Santa Monica, or Malibu would definitely be high on the wish list. There is nowhere like that in this area.

If I was a 21-year-old rookie making 400k I'd still choose NYC or LA or any major city. Financially it's not as prudent as living in Pittsburgh or Tampa or Minneapolis but you can only be young and rich once.

One time I ended up out with an NYY pitcher who was in his late 20s and for a random night out he paid for a bar tab for like 15 people and then bought out 2 bowling alley lanes (?!) at a fancy bowling alley and paid for all the drinks and food, plus he had a driver. That kind of belligerent stupidity can only happen when you make half a million dollars a year before you're 25.

I'd love to have made 400k when I lived in NYC. That kind of money would have been an incredible life there.

If I was a 21-year-old rookie making 400k I'd still choose NYC or LA or any major city.

This. But tastes change as you get older. 26 is only 5 years older than 21, but its almost night and day. You can go out and get slammed in a nice place in any city these days. The only REAL difference is the women, but he just recently got married...

Beach shmeach, theres plenty of time to look at water in the offseason